💁🏼‍♂️ 10 Tips for showing your home to buyers

Once your home is on the market showings can be scheduled without much advance notice, so ideally, your home should be kept spotless while it’s listed for sale. You want to be prepared to show the house whenever someone calls. Here are our top 10 tips for showing your home to buyers.

1. Tidy up: clean up daily messes, like crumbs on the table, coffee spills on the counter or toothpaste drips in the bathroom.

2. Turn on every light: Overhead lights, lamps, even turn on appliance lights and closet lights. Be sure the porch light is on, especially after dark; solar lights along your walkway are a nice touch as well.

3. Avoid strong-smelling foods: Avoid foods that leave long-lasting odors.

4. Keep pet areas clean: Clean up after your pets immediately and wash their bedding regularly. Also, hide any pet food or litter. Not everyone is a pet person.

5. Make it bright and welcoming: Open blinds and curtains to let in as much natural light as possible, and leave lights on when you vacate for a showing.

6. Empty trash cans: To avoid bad odors, regularly empty trash cans in every room.

7. Set the thermostat to a comfortable temperature: If tours will be happening when you’re at work and you usually turn the heat off, keep it on so that buyers will be comfortable during their tour. Same goes for the summer — if you have a nice, cool house, buyers will be inclined to stay longer and enjoy the home.

8. Declutter & Depersonalize: Remove items that clutter up the space and make rooms look smaller. Remove family photos and personalized decor — you want buyers to picture themselves living in the home.

9. Be flexible with showing times: Be willing to show your home between 8AM to 8PM. By being flexible with showings one should even allow for the possibility of last minute showings. One can never tell when the right buyer for your home needs to see the home as soon as possible.

10. Pay attention to showing feedback: Once a home is on the market the most valuable feedback that can be had is from actual buyers who have visited the home. If buyers are repeating one constant theme, it would be wise to listen to that advice and adjust accordingly.

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